Technical inefficiency and production risk in rice farming: Evidence from Central Luzon Philippines

Asian Economic Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-46

  Villano, Renato ^a   Fleming, Euan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heteroskedastic error structure; Philippines; Stochastic frontier production function; Technical inefficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION;

EID: 33644977241     PISSN: 13513958     EISSN: 14678381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2006.00223.x     Document Type: Article

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